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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?
(a) "A Brief Account of New England."
(b) "A History of the Great War."
(c) "An Account of King Philip's War."
(d) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."

2. The colonists lost about how many men in the Great Swamp Fight?
(a) 70.
(b) 67.
(c) 25.
(d) 59.

3. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Narragansett tribe.
(c) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

4. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) Josiah Winslow.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) William Hubbard.

5. At what age did Hugo Grotius publish his first book?
(a) 22.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

6. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?
(a) 1610.
(b) 1664.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1622.

7. What were hideous to the colonists and were assigned to the Indians, according to the author?
(a) Swamplands.
(b) Meadows.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Rivers.

8. According to the author, the English were particularly brutal when they attacked the Narragansetts' Great Swamp on what date?
(a) September 1, 1675.
(b) December 19, 1675.
(c) August 13, 1677.
(d) November 10, 1674.

9. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?
(a) 1675.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1648.

10. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

11. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 27.
(d) 32.

12. When did Nathaniel Saltonstall die?
(a) 1707.
(b) 1725.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1718.

13. When did the Pequot War begin?
(a) 1615.
(b) 1634.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1662.

14. What university did John Eliot attend?
(a) Oxford College.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Jesus College, Cambridge.
(d) Harvard University.

15. According to the author in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?, due to their great losses, many New England colonists thought God was punishing them for their failure to do what?
(a) Convert the Indians to Christianity.
(b) Remain loyal to the Crown.
(c) Maintain purity.
(d) Kill all of the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?

2. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?

3. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?

4. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?

5. John Sassamon was born circa what year?

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